When you must let go so God can take care

I’ve been a mom for the past 17 years, and in this amazing experience that life has gifted me, I somehow became a fixer-upper-of-everything. There wasn’t a challenge I could not tackle, and a problem I couldn’t find a solution to (or invent one), until one very special day where God reminded me who’s in control.

Eduardo, my son, had a life-threatening accident many years ago. Doctors said there was not much we could do but wait to see how he would evolve in the next 72 hours. It would be a gigantic understatement to say I completely lost it, as I didn’t have a solution for this, I had to wait, and I had to trust.

Pacing around the hospital like a crazy person, and not knowing what else to do, I went into a little chapel, and asked God to take action, I implored that he fixed everything, as I had no idea what to do.

In that moment, a story came to my mind. There was a little boy playing with his favorite toy in the world: a train. He played with it every day at all times, but one day, it broke.

The boy freaked out, and started screaming, which caught his father’s attention (he was a train-fixing-person). He came running to the room, and asked his son to give him the train so he could fix it.

The boy extended his hands with the train tightly clenched in his fingers, but couldn’t give it to his father. His dad then said “I cannot fix it if you don’t let go”

And that message, that came so clear to me on that afternoon at the hospital, reminds me that there is a Higher Power that completely adores us, and that’s willing to help us any way we need, but only if we allow.

So now, when life throws challenges that overwhelm me, I remind myself that I must also let go, and have Faith God knows how to fix it